title: Cinema in the training of psychiatry residents: focus on helping relationships.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Medical schools are currently charged with a lack of education as far as empathic/relational skills and the meaning of being a health-care provider are concerned, thus leading to increased interest in medical humanities.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Medical humanities can offer an insight into human illness and in a broader outlook into human condition, understanding of one self, responsibility. An empathic relation to patients might be fostered by a matching approach to humanities and sciences, which should be considered as subjects of equal relevance, complementary to one another. Recently, movies have been used in medical--psychiatric--trainees education, but mainly within the limits of teaching a variety of disorders. A different approach dealing with the use of cinema in the training of psychiatry residents is proposed, based on Jung and Hillman's considerations about the relation between images and archetypes, archetypal experience and learning.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Selected full-length movies or clips can offer a priceless opportunity to face with the meaning of being involved in a care-providing, helping profession.
authors.affiliation: Department of Translational Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Università del Piemonte Orientale Amedeo Avogadro, Via Solaroli n° 17, Novara 28100, Italy.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Gramaglia
authors.forename: Amalia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jona
authors.forename: Fredrica
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Imperatori
authors.forename: Eugenio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Torre
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Zeppegno
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum; D004645:Empathy; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000379:methods*; D009040:Motion Pictures; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000193:education*